Hi Frankie, We've begun warping subjects a little bit. Overdrive is an example of an easy way for us to group a whole bunch of titles together, in this case, ebooks that are available for loan through the OverDrive lending system.
There are a few others: "protected DAISY", "accessible book", "new york times bestseller"... But, it's not just Open Library that's adding subjects which don't actually describe what the book's about - even from the source records, there are subjects which have been used in similar ways, like "SEL Library Selection" - http://openlibrary.org/subjects/sel_library_selection Even though there are rules associated with subject headings and cataloging, I think what we're seeing is that in practice, it seems quite folksonomic in nature. Cheers, george Frankie Roberto wrote: > Hi, > > Just been playing the author merge feature - nice! > > Noticed that a lot of the books seem to have "OverDrive" as a subject. I > presume this is some kind of hang-over from the subject-flattening > project - as OverDrive is some kind of (US-based?) Library system, no? > > If so, it'd be good to remove it as I don't think it tallies with the > regular type of "subjects"... > > Cheers, > > Frankie > > -- > Frankie Roberto > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
